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Summary: Liars beware!
Review: Conservatives, take heart! Read this book very closely and with a thinking mind, and begin to accept that your party has been stolen from you by rich elitist fundamentalist Christian bastions of broken economic dreams, then take your party back from them!Liberals, take heart! Al Franken has written a book that is a rock-solid foundation for moving forward with a stronger, less poisonous national discourse, turning the slings and arrows of the Right back on themselves with logic, fact, and humor. Not only an easy and entertaining read, this is a serious look at political discourse in this country. Al takes on subjects from Clinton-bashing all the way to Coulter, O'Reilly, and Fox News with impeccable fact checking from the amazing TeamFranken. Democratic candidates should be calling Al with requests to quote his book in their speeches! Al Franken is the perfect combination of comic, intellectual, and critic, and if the nation continues its fall from grace, world leadership, and prosperity, it won't be because Al Franken neglected his duty as a patriotic, intelligent, thinking American.
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Summary: al franken writing about telling lies? he's an expert.
Review: Could Al Franken sell a book to anyone but his mother if he didn't put someone on the cover like Rush Limbaugh, or Bill O'reilly? Someone with some credibility. Could he sell one to anyone else without referencing the number one cable news channel? Has Al Franken ever had an original idea? or does he just spew the venom of the extreme left? Poor Al is just a desparate little has-been trying to hold on while the rest of the world moves on into the future. Don't waste your money.
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Summary: Where is the half star rating?
Review: Couldn't swallow the lies, Al. I saved 990 words...see?
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Summary: Lies of 'Cons' Bared!
Review: Critics of this book ask why would people buy it? In 'con' fashion they go into miriads of slants, rants, theories and even call Al: 'LIAR' -they hang that on one twisted fact. See, Al tricked (or tried to) some prominent-cons with a letter to umask one of the tons of lies and myths of cons debunked in this book. Of course, Al himself reveals this in the book -notably something the con-liers avoid like the plague. The cons response to the letter, or lack thereof, and the rest of the book is so telling about about their hypocrisy and dishonesty -tragic, but Al makes it easy reading and fun. It's a lot simpler than 'con' critics argue. Why buy this book? Easy, fun and most importantly unabridged truth. Revealing, enlightening. Enjoy!
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Summary: Al Franken is a Big Fat Idiot!
Review: Cry me a river, Al....this is your typical classless rhetoric...yet another pathetic display by you comparable to a two-year olds temper tantrum at Wal-mart because he can't get a new set of Hulk hands. Quit whining, will you? You and politics are like nails on a chalkboard. I read your book just to see once and for all if you knew what you were talking about. You didn't. And the worst part for you, Al? You're not even funny anymore.
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Summary: An Urgent MUST READ for the Real American
Review: Dear Al and TeamFranken,
This book, purchased on a whim for a laugh, turned out to be a real page-turner: I could NOT put it down! This will top our gift giving list this year. There were at least as many tears shed as laughs enjoyed, for the truth is not always pretty. I cried a lot. There are a lot of lies that Americans want to believe and refuse to investigate personally. Your research inspired my own intense follow-up rsearch because I LOVE America. I love what it stands for. Our current Administration is not as much "American" as it is desirous of creating and maintaining a small elitist group of Controllers. I wanted to see what was true and what was not. I am now mortified to report that you, a comedian and team of Harvard students are RIGHT! I am "mortified" not because you exposed so many truths of how we have been misled but that it wasn't done by "award winning news commentators." YOU told the truth and in a way that is more easily understandable than the currently popular media mish-mash of factoids presented as the whole truth. We are a nation Mislead. We are a nation that has been LIED to, again and again, and sadly, it is the most hysterical people who get the attention. Al, I thank you and TeamFranken with all my heart. It takes guts as well as humor to stand up to people so given to making vicious attacks on any critic of their secretive and manipulating ways. Frannie, you got a real mensch for a husband. (But you knew that already.) Americans if you love this country, if you cherish your Freedom, if you know that as an adult you have to look at the bad so you know what to help change...READ THIS BOOK and get moving!
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Summary: Aren't there laws against libel and defamation?
Review: Dear God, Please forgive me for even having thought about reading this book. I thought the Father of Lies would have horns and cloven hooves. I thought he would look more sinister and not so geeky and effeminate. Please give me back the intellegence and sense of humor I lost for having seen this mindless, shallow filth. I'm sorry.
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Summary: Bad Frinken, Bad Bad
Review: Dear Mister Frinklin, why oh why due you make funn of my faverat tv show. Fox nitwork is my heroe. They putt all you white trash leberals to sham. As the avarege fox netwerk viewor who vetod fer Goerge Busch I am palled at yur frickin badd mouthin ways! Hannratty is my heroe. He makes lots of funny noizes with his muth and shouts at lots of peple and so is Bill thogh I dont git him sometimes. He's reallllllllll smart. They don lie neither. I wood vote for prezident Busch agin and agin and agin cause you leberals don't truss no one, not even the prezident. Howl can you live wif yrselves when you don't trust noone?? HUH? You are all pathetogenic!
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Summary: WAKE UP AMERICANS/HUMAN BEINGS!!!!
Review: Deos any of you see what is going on here. While they make millions of dollars the world is suffering. Are they doing anything to "look out for you", NO. Any person with any intelligence knows that ever government in the world is corrupt. I don't care what color or what piece of land you live on. So while O'Reilly and Franken make millions basically re-writing facts and pushing data at you, they sit in their million dollar houses sipping their coffee saying. "Damn life can't get any better can it?" Deos the book have good points and facts,YES, but thank Havard researchers for that. Is this book just like the rest, YES. Look at it this way, do you think they would put up any of their personal money to investigate any of these cases. I DON"T THINK SO. So, basically its just another run-around book about how the government lies, corporations, and media. Who deosn't now that? Well, obviously a LOT of people, which makes me real sad. Mark another $25.00 dollars for Al and who ever published this book, good going America.
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Summary: A useful book
Review: Despite Franken's wit and the comedy of the Fox News lawsuit, this is a serious book. It makes clear that the political right could not have achieved its present power without resorting to systematic and shameless lying. It also makes an implicit criticism of the mainline media. The technique of the right that Franken describes is to plant a completely false story and allow the newspapers and television news programs that are supposedly neutral but have been excessively credulous to pass them on as fact. Thus it happens that even I, who am opposed to the Bush administration, believed, for example, that Clintonites trashed executive offices before leaving them and that the Wellstone memorial degenerated into a tasteless political event. Both stories were fabrications solemnly passed on by mainstream media. Moreover, Franken demonstrates that the lies of the right cover up policies that are destructive of the general welfare, the economy, the environment, and even of national security. On the last issue, supposedly Bush's strong suit, he shows how the administration failed to act on warnings from the Clinton administration about al Qaeda and the need for an Office of Homeland Security until 9/11. The terrible truth is that 9/11 might have been preventable by a more intelligent administration. This is not a faultless book. Franken's fantasy in which he imagines how the chickenhawks of this administration might have behaved if they had actually served in the Vietnam war is entertaining but not really a contribution to his message. Still, with its humor and with the great help that it got from Fox News, this book will reach millions who will not read more solemn works that make many of the same points.
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